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BTW, the healing crow website is closing down in a few days. There is acertain amount of info preserved there - direct replies from Elaine on a number of topics - I remember reading through it and learning a lot whenI was a newbie. So I suggest some of you take the time to go throughthese Q & As while you still can:http://www.healingcrow.com/scdwisdom/LWscd/lwscd_37.html\\I just want to post this here with inf, because at times people here haveadvised regular non-sensitive to probiotics people to start with 1/4 teaspoon orless of yogurt. That was not Elaine's position:Subject:Yogurt Dosage Question:I ordered the Yogourmet from Lucy and can't wait to start making yogurt. Can anyone tell me how much yogurt should be eaten daily for optimum results? Elaine writes:You have to work up to find out about your own body. But the most common routine is to start with a half cup, next day a cup and work up to no more than 3 cups per day. Others can tell you that you can over do yogurt because it loads the bloodstream with a great deal of the monosaccharide GALACTOSE quickly and some people with IBD have livers that cannot convert the galactose quickly enough to glucose and therefore galactose builds up in the bloodstream just as glucose does in diabetics and can cause cataracts, etc. I certainly would not exceed 3 cups plus what you use in soups, etc.And here's another one on vincomycin:Subject:Vancomycin Question:My GI has been experimenting with vancomycin on his IBD patients. He has had some remarkable success giving vanco to patients who were headed for surgery because standard IBD meds were not helping them. One of his patients was "cured" completely. He doesn't know why. This is a very controversial treatment and not one other GI at Mt. Sinai is prescribing vanco in that way. I know that Marla, whose doc worked out of the same office as mine, refused to let her try it. My doc prescribed 2 weeks of vancomycin for me, and then when I was almost finished it I practically begged him to give me another prescription. He let me take it for 2 more weeks and was amazed at how quickly my bowel healed. Of course, I was following the SCD too, at the time, and eating lots of yogurt. I wish he would collect dietary information from his patients who take the vanco. I bet the patients who do well on it have some things in common. Elaine writes:Fifteen years ago in the Dept. of Anatomy at Univ. of Western Ontario I spent a year working on UC. It was well known then that vancomycin and/or clindamycin were successfully used for Clostridium difficile colitis caused by antibotics. Of course vancomysin is an antibiotic . I had no idea it was so controversial. On page l5l of BTVC, I have a reference on C. difficile. On page l53 (references) ref. 38 is a 1976 Workshop on clindamycin colitis with Dr. Present being one of two editors. If I remember correctly, clindamycin and vancomycin have some kind of relationship. I just can't recall if clindamycin causes colitis and it is cured by vancomycin. But the point is that it has been worked on in the research community for decades.And here is Elaine talking about eating caraway seeds if you crave them:Subject:Missing Bread Question:I miss whole grain bread on this diet. Elaine writes:When it comes to missing the whole grain bread dipped in olive oil and garlic, perhaps one of Lucy's bread recipes dipped in olive oil and garlic will do the trick.I remember Judy missing rye bread before we had a bread recipe. I was too dumb to leave the honey out of the muffins and experiment. She would go around with caraway seeds and salt in her palm licking them it for an hour at a time. And if this satisfies any of you, go to the caraway seeds and pay no attention to my warnings about seeds. I wrote that in case someone with diverticulitis was told to avoid nuts and saw my ground -up almond recipes and used them and got sick and I got sued, I would be blamed so I wrote it defensively. I still worry about mainstream advice like that being contradictory to SCD. Dr. Truss got in trouble with his mentioning an "all-meat diet" and the low cholesterol adviceAnd here's some that surprised me about the pectin in stonyfield organic yogurt being okay. I don't know if she later changed her mind about that, but evidently at this point, she thought it was good to use:Subject:Stonyfield Yogurt - Pectin Question:I started to use Stonyfield yogurt as a starter and then noticed it has pectin. Can I still use it? Elaine writes:We have had a lot of discussion on Stonyfield lately which you may have missed. Perhaps someone has saved it and can send it to you. But it is recommended highly even with the little pectin you will be using for a starter. The added pectin to jams and jellies is considerably more than what is in the little yogurt you will use as a starter. Welcome and good luck, ElaineMara